Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Upstairs in his room Dorian 's body shook with fear like a leaf in the wind . |
| 32 | ‘ You know as well as I do , ’ said Loppe , ‘ that when Famagusta surrenders , this island will split into flame like a fireball . |
| 33 | Speech departed from me , I gained a joyous heart , I was bursting with rapture like a pomegranate . |
| 34 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
| 35 | Highly nervous , he rushed into combat like a wound-up spring , diving on his foe in the impetuous manner that cost the life of many an inexperienced young aviator . |
| 36 | Its cover was black and the plastic envelopes inside were rather smaller so that each page was displayed edged with black like a mourning card . |
| 37 | Arriving in Coober Pedy at sunset , I noticed the desert sky was streaked with red like a fire opal . |
| 38 | Sometimes a woman knotted up with arthritis like a ship 's rope would throw up her gnarled hands and swear that her pain was gone . |
| 39 | He was still sitting in the same chair , staring into space like a man in a trance . |
| 40 | As the particles catch Lucifer 's magnetic field , it is extended into space like a fishing net caught by the tide . |
| 41 | I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool . |
| 42 | If you are to prosper , as you should — ’ and she waited , but he had dropped into sleep like a stone . |
| 43 | Often in American movies , the sentimentality , the insistence on ‘ dotting the eyes ’ and manipulating the emotions , makes me puff up with venom like a cobra . |
| 44 | Paviour stood rigid , frozen into silence like the rest . |
| 45 | holding onto darkness like a dance , |
| 46 | Badged with jet like the ear of the tiger |
| 47 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 48 | When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing . |
| 49 | For example , they lived very much longer than one would have expected , and Gellmann said well these were strange particles and he invented a new quantum number called a strangeness , and then he assumed that this strangeness quantum number was not quite conserved. erm we have conserved quantum numbers in physics like the charge — you have to conserve the charge , but you do n't quite have to conserve the strangeness . |
| 50 | Such a payment is in law like a gift , and the transaction can not be reopened . |
| 51 | But I can only retrieve her lips , those lightly ribbed , juicy lips , studded and patterned in close-up like a mulberry or a raspberry , their almost leathery texture if you were to brush them with your fingertips or tongue tip ( that snaky little organ equipped with ideas of its own ) . |
| 52 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 53 | Johnson slept on the hay in his huge-pocketed greatcoat ; Boswell laid the sheets his wife had packed on top of the hay and , observed Johnson , ‘ lay in linen like a gentleman ’ . |
| 54 | Back then , I 'd watch Tonight before heading to the West End to play in Roar Like A Dove . |
| 55 | By the time she turned around , Paula Engado was frozen in space like a china figurine . |
| 56 | The hand moved faster , passed the blanket-edge and stopped , bobbing gently in space like a mascot hanging from a car-mirror . |
| 57 | ‘ Are you going to receive him in bed like an empress or downstairs in the drawing-room like an innocent ? ’ |
| 58 | Her quim swum in oil like a sardine in a tin . |
| 59 | I do mind of course , that Scott , who walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies , should be hurt by the words of a bunch of churlish rogues , but with the gallant Sir John riding to her defence she needs no help from me . |
| 60 | In summer like a sea tern with black cap , grey underparts , white cheeks and red bill , white underwing and under tail coverts conspicuous in flight . |